the really little bookstore

Monday, March 9, 2015

"DEAD IS BETTERis not just beautifully
written but weirdly moving and funnier than death should be and with a
dog like Rosie, the afterlife is sweeter than I could have ever hoped
for."

--Jervey Tervalon

In the interest of full disclosure, I am biased by a 25 year friendship with Jo Perry. I knew this book would be great before I read it because every letter, poem, note that she's ever written has been written and edited so beautifully that I have saved all of them.

AND you bet it's great! As the daughter of a master comedy writer (Charles Lee), Jo's genetically acquired sly wit and grouchy characters enrich an ingenious plot so that by the end you have been persuaded to

“Another excellently engineered thriller from Thomas Perry featuring Jane Whitefield. . . . Soul-searching and car chases too. What more could we ask from an escape artist like Perry?”—New York Times Book Review

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The reallylittlebookstore was once nestled within legendary Darien gift shop Good Food Good Things. With an expertly curated selection of books ranging from beloved children's classics to avant garde coffee table tomes, thereallylittlebookstore still offers on Amazon something for all curious and frisky readers. The cognoscenti were fans of the humorous erotica cached in the basement, including the amusing opus titled "the Mysterious World of Syrian Lingerie".